As one of the largest coffee roasters in North America, Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA (MZB-USA) provides
coffee expertise from seed to cup, offering
a range of solutions from single origins to
unique blends — in an array of innovative
packaging options for the home, office and
foodservice.

Owned by Massimo Zanetti Beverage
Group (MZB Group) in Treviso, Italy, the
company’s North American headquarters
was born from an Italian heritage spanning
four generations of coffee expertise. Much
of the company’s coffee is grown, sourced,
milled, processed, exported and traded
through MZB Group, or alliances with the
Zanetti family.

Because of this full integration, MZB-USA is a single resource deliveringinnovative solutions like no other. Itsportfolio consists of quality productsranging from super-premium packagedcoffees to trusted iconic brands that boasta longstanding tradition of great taste.

As one of the largest coffee roasters in
the country, MZB-USA partners to produce
a wide range of coffees for some of the
biggest retailers, as well as convenience
store and coffeehouse chains in North
America.

With a state-of-the art roasting facility in
Suffolk, Virginia, an average of more than

20,000 pounds of coffee is ground per hour,
with packaging capabilities that include
bricks, bags, jars, cans and more. The
newest packaging line has been engineered
to produce 100 percent compostable
single-serve coffee pods — certified by the
Biodegradable Products Institute to break
down in composting facilities in less than
100 days. The company also produces
organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance and
Utz certified coffees.

The company also owns the Kauai
Coffee Company and, with more than
4 million coffee trees grown on 3,100
acres, Kauai Coffee is Hawaii’s largest
coffee farm.

At Massimo Zanetti Beverage, all
they do is coffee — it’s their way of life,
from planting, harvesting and roasting,
to cupping, packaging, marketing and
distributing.

Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA was one of seven Virginia food and beverage
manufacturers featured in the cover story in the January/February 2017 issue of Food
Manufacturing that focused on that state’s thriving F&B sector. Here’s a closer look at
one of North America’s largest coffee makers.

On an average day atone of Massimo ZanettiBeverage USA’s roastingfacilities, the companyproduces enough coffeeto make more than 20million cups.